«How to have healthy children». Responses to the falling birth rate in Norway, c. 1900-1940

Autor: Ida Blom
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Dynamis, Volume: 28, Pages: 151-174, Published: 2008
Dynamis v.28 2008
SciELO España. Revistas Científicas Españolas de Ciencias de la Salud
Recercat: Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam; Vol. 28 (2008): Improving public health amidst crises: the in-terwar years in Europe; p. 151-174
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Popis: This paper focuses on initiatives to improve infant health, as they developed in Norway especially during the interwar period. Falling birth rates were felt as a menace to the survival of the nation and specific initiatives were taken to oppose it. But crises engendered by the reduction in fertility strengthened opportunities for introducing policies to help the fewer children born survive and grow up to become healthy citizens. Legislation supporting mothers started in 1892 increased in the interwar years including economic features. Healthy mother and baby stations and hygienic clinics, aimed at controlling births were developed by voluntary organisations inspired from France and England respectively. A sterilization law (1934) paralleled some German policies.
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